Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (851 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300179804 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 250 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Arcadia in Philadelphia Kenneth Hughes This is the volume published to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from June to September 2012. Writing in "The New York Times," Ken Johnson accused the museum of "false advertising" for mounting only ten of the core trio's paintings and filling out the show with "second- and third-rank" painters. I have not seen the exhibition and don't know how much justice there is in that complaint; it is true, though, that the "Index of W. I love it C'ville reader Beautiful and fascinating catalog from an outstanding show.
These are joined by major works by Henri Edmond Cross, Robert Delaunay, André Derain, Pablo Picasso, Henri Rousseau, and Paul Signac, as well as paintings by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Franz Marc, and Natalia Goncharova to suggest the vitality of this subject outside the canonical French definitions. Virgil envisioned such a place of bucolic pleasures—erotic and unsullied, sometimes shadowed by blunted desires and doubts—in his Eclogues, set in the valley of Arcadia in ancient Greece. Their resonance as a foundation for European painters around 1900 is the subject of this beautifully illustrated catalogue, which focuses on three monumental paintings—Paul Gauguin's Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (1897-98), Paul Cézanne's The Large Bathers (1906), and Henri Matisse's Bathers by a River (1909-10, 1913, and 1916-17). The notion of a golden age set in an earthly paradise has long kindled the human imagination. Distinguished scholars place these artists within the larger context of this inventive period in art history.. Other masterpieces by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Nicolas Poussin, and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes establish the high value given to Arcadia in the history of French painting. His poems de
Rishel is the Gisela and Dennis Alter Senior Curator of European Painting before 1900 and Senior Curator of the John G. About the AuthorJoseph J. Johnson Collection and the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Joseph J. Johnson Collection and the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art.. Rishel is the Gisela and Dennis Alter Senior Curator of European Painting before 1900 and Senior Curator of the John G